Re:The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival ...
by ponker on Monday June 29, 2020 @03:06PM
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Yes, but the eBay flywheel was already in place when she arrived. In a marketplace business it's hard to get started but hard to be disrupted, so while growing the company to $8B revenue demonstrates great managerial skill, it doesn't have anything to do with the skill of being the CEO of a startup without product-market fit. She hasn't ever demonstrated the skill of breathing life into a company.
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Re:The fall of Quibi: how did a starry $1.75B Netflix rival ...
by toast0 on Monday June 29, 2020 @11:15PM
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It looks like she was running it while Yahoo Auctions was competing; in that time frame, Yahoo was a force to be reckoned with, and they had some scaling issues to manage (which is mostly a tech thing, but management can screw up tech things). So, while ebay did have market fit, it wasn't a sure thing.